Contributors

Howard Anglin is a doctoral student at Oxford University. He was previously Deputy Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Principal Secretary to the Premier of Alberta, Jason Kenney, and a lawyer in New York, London, and Washington, DC.

Joanna Baron is Executive Director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation, a legal charity that protects constitutional freedoms in courts of law and public opinion. Previously, she was the founding National Director of the Runnymede Society and a criminal defence litigator in Toronto. She studied Classics at St John’s College in MD and NM and law at McGill University.

David Frum is a leading author, journalist, public intellectual, and staff writer at The Atlantic. He previously worked as a speechwriter for former President George W. Bush and chaired for the think tank Policy Exchange.

Trevor Tombe is a professor of economics at the University of Calgary, the Director of Fiscal and Economic Policy at The School of Public Policy, a Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, and a Fellow at the Public Policy Forum.

Alicia Planincic is the Director of Policy & Economics at the Business Council of Alberta. She regularly provides insight and analysis on the Canadian economy, public finances, labour markets, equity and social mobility, and public policy.

David Polansky is a Toronto-based writer. His work has appeared in The Globe and Mail, The Washington Post, and Foreign Policy. Follow him on X, and read him at Strange Frequencies.

Kirk LaPointe is The Hub‘s B.C. Correspondent. He is a transplanted Ontarian to British Columbia. Before he left, he ran CTV News, Southam News and the Hamilton Spectator. He also helped launch the National Post as its first executive editor, was a day-one host on CBC Newsworld, and ran the Ottawa bureau of The Canadian Press. His B.C. experiences include being managing editor of the Vancouver Sun, the English-language ombudsman of the CBC, and most recently the publisher and editor-in-chief of Business in Vancouver and vice-president editorial of its parent company, Glacier Media. He ran and finished second for the Vancouver mayoralty in 2014. He has taught for two decades at the UBC School of Journalism and now writes columns for Glacier Media.

Eric Lombardi stands at the forefront of urban development and advocacy as the founder and president of More Neighbours Toronto, a volunteer organization committed to ending the housing crisis. Professionally, he specializes in strategy management consulting in the finance and technology sectors.

Peter Menzies is a commentator and consultant on media, a Macdonald-Laurier Institute Senior Fellow, a past publisher of the Calgary Herald, and a former vice chair of the CRTC

Jack Mitchell (www.jackmitchell.ca) is a poet and scholar based in Halifax, where he is an associate professor of Classics at Dalhousie. His latest book, “The Odyssey of Star Wars: an Epic Poem”, a retelling of the original Star Wars film trilogy, was published in September 2021 by Abrams Books.

Ginny Roth is a Partner at Crestview Strategy and a long-time conservative activist who most recently served as the Director of Communications on Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative leadership campaign.

Richard Shimooka is a Hub contributing writer and a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute who writes on defence policy.

Derrick Hunter is the CEO of Bluesky Equities Ltd. a private diversified investment management company.  He was named Canadian Angel Investor of the Year for 2019.  He is also a trustee of the Hunter Family Foundation, which underwrites The Hunter Prize for Public Policy at The Hub.

Dave Snow is an Associate professor in political science at the University of Guelph and a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.

Philip Deck is a software entrepreneur, the former CEO of Certicom Corp. and MKS Inc., and has also served as the Lead Director of the Bank of Canada and the Chair of the Canadian Opera Company.

Mike Moffatt is the founding director of the Missing Middle Initiative and co-host of the Missing Middle Podcast.

Aaron Pete is the Chief of Chawathil First Nation in B.C.. He is also the manager of strategic relationships with Metis Nation British Columbia and the host of the Nuanced Podcast. He is a graduate of the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia.

Heather Exner-Pirot is the director of energy, natural resources and environment at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.

David Coletto is the founder and CEO of Abacus Data and a regular on Hub Politics.

Malcolm Jolley is a roving wine and food journalist, beagler, and professional house guest. Based mostly in Toronto, he publishes a sort of wine club newsletter at mjwinebox.com.

Patrick Luciani is a writer and book reviewer for The Hub and former executive director of the Donner Canadian Foundation.

Livio Di Matteo is Professor of Economics at Lakehead University and a member of the CIHI NHEX Advisory Panel. The views expressed here are his own.

Karen Restoule is Director of Indigenous Affairs at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, a Senior Advisor at Oyster Group, and host of the Breakthrough Nation podcast. She is Ojibwe from Dokis First Nation.